AN OVERSEAS recruitment drive for doctors could help with staffing levels at Accident and Emergency (A&E) departments.
Health minister Earl Hower said the NHS could look to bring in more doctors from outside the UK from places such as India as British medical students shun working in A&Es because of the intense pressure.
Cheltenham General Hospital's A&E department will be downgraded this August, with ambulances taking critically-ill patients to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital between 8pm and 8am instead.